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FOOTBALL Middle Tennessee at Ole Miss Game Thread

MidTennMtneer
sWiley said:
Gonna be a pillow fight next week imo. WKU looks very weak and beatable, like us. G5 teams in general look weaker than ever in my opinion. Outside of a few quality programs it's been an absolute blood letting in the OOC games pitting G5 vs. P4. Much more so than before the transfer portal era.

It's so depressing to see the direction we are headed. G5 glorified junior colleges now. Many G5 coaches now approaching recruiting with the idea of getting players "to the next level." It's hard to imagine such a thing. No coach ever would have been agreeable to such a thing 5 years ago. "Hey, come be great at Middle Tennessee for a year or two and we'll get you that SEC money!".....There's no way the coaches are enjoying this, but I guess they have zero options at this point. Either embrace it or be labeled a dinosaur and lose your job.

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It's a double edged sword. Your thoughts are spot on and how a lot feel. At the same time, using what I bolded is exactly what they do and can help us with the right people in place.

Same as I've said before about coaches getting plucked. Do it enough and players will want to come here because they will know they can get noticed. Especially with the scholarship changes that may happen if the NCAA case is ever settled. They may not be PWOs anymore, but they'll ride the bench at Power schools. Come here and play. I'll gladly let them use us to prove the Power schools wrong. Let em go and bring in the next guy with a chip on his shoulder.
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FOOTBALL Middle Tennessee at Ole Miss Game Thread

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Blue2323 said:
We played about what I expected. Of course Ole Miss was going to be stronger, faster, and such. I saw a few good things out there. This still looks like a 4 or 5 win team but it’s still early. Quite honestly I haven’t been that impressed with any team in our conference yet. I guess maybe FIU won big today but who knows how good CMU is. We probably won’t know too much about our team until we’re halfway in October.The MAC had Kent St get beat by St Francis and Idaho took care of Wyoming.
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FOOTBALL Middle Tennessee at Ole Miss Game Thread

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sWiley said:
Gonna be a pillow fight next week imo. WKU looks very weak and beatable, like us. G5 teams in general look weaker than ever in my opinion. Outside of a few quality programs it's been an absolute blood letting in the OOC games pitting G5 vs. P4. Much more so than before the transfer portal era.

It's so depressing to see the direction we are headed. G5 glorified junior colleges now. Many G5 coaches now approaching recruiting with the idea of getting players "to the next level." It's hard to imagine such a thing. No coach ever would have been agreeable to such a thing 5 years ago. "Hey, come be great at Middle Tennessee for a year or two and we'll get you that SEC money!".....There's no way the coaches are enjoying this, but I guess they have zero options at this point. Either embrace it or be labeled a dinosaur and lose your job.

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I'm at the WKU game, of middle can zone read them, it's will be a W for MT. EKU had a 93 drive, just running zome read. Came up.short the kicker hit the upright
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FOOTBALL Middle Tennessee at Ole Miss Game Thread

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We played about what I expected. Of course Ole Miss was going to be stronger, faster, and such. I saw a few good things out there. This still looks like a 4 or 5 win team but it’s still early. Quite honestly I haven’t been that impressed with any team in our conference yet. I guess maybe FIU won big today but who knows how good CMU is. We probably won’t know too much about our team until we’re halfway in October.
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FOOTBALL Middle Tennessee at Ole Miss Game Thread

sWiley
MidTennMtneer said:
Room for improvement for sure but I still think next week will be our first true gauge of what we are. I'm not panicking yet. We all knew this would be a rough year with lots of ups and downs.

I do hope Peasant isn't seriously injured.
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Gonna be a pillow fight next week imo. WKU looks very weak and beatable, like us. G5 teams in general look weaker than ever in my opinion. Outside of a few quality programs it's been an absolute blood letting in the OOC games pitting G5 vs. P4. Much more so than before the transfer portal era.

It's so depressing to see the direction we are headed. G5 glorified junior colleges now. Many G5 coaches now approaching recruiting with the idea of getting players "to the next level." It's hard to imagine such a thing. No coach ever would have been agreeable to such a thing 5 years ago. "Hey, come be great at Middle Tennessee for a year or two and we'll get you that SEC money!".....There's no way the coaches are enjoying this, but I guess they have zero options at this point. Either embrace it or be labeled a dinosaur and lose your job.

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FOOTBALL Middle Tennessee at Ole Miss Game Thread

TrueBlue147
Offense looks better than defense. I thought defense would be ahead of Offense with Mason being a defensive guy, but it appears not to be the case. Maybe Mason should start running the defense himself. It appears we just don't have the players this year. It's hard to believe we can't get one stop the whole game no matter how good they are.

Injuries are killing us already. Sure seems like we're the most unlucky teams every year.
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FOOTBALL Middle Tennessee at Ole Miss Game Thread

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Game Comparison
STATMTOle Miss
Total Yds279655
Pass Yds251397
Rush Yds28258
Penalties8-608-78
1st Downs1833
3rd Downs4-147-9
4th Downs1-20-1
Total Plays6673
Avg Yds/Play4.29
Avg Yds/Completion9.714.7
Avg Yds/Rush1.16.1
Sack-Adj Rush Yd(Avg)42 (1.8)275 (7.1)
Red Zone1-38-8
Time of Poss33:1026:50
Turnovers (Def Pts Off)2 (14)0 (0)
Fumbles-Lost1-11-0
Sacks (Def Yds)3 (17)2 (14)
TFL (Def Yds)6 (27)9 (31)
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FOOTBALL Middle Tennessee at Ole Miss Game Thread

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Have to keep in mind that we won only four games last year. We had very little talent coming back outside of Vattiato and Willis. It’s going to take a while. Offense has looked better this second half because they started flinging it around. Got away from trying to run straight ahead against an SEC DL. I like what I see out of Gagliano.
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FOOTBALL Middle Tennessee at Ole Miss Game Thread

sWiley
Going to be a long year. I was hoping to find some positives coming out of this game considering we all knew it would be a predictable loss.

I can’t find any. We have a few good players but not nearly enough to be a good team. I’m also highly suspect of these coordinators. I think both are a clear downgrade over Mitch Stewart and Scott shafer thus far. Predictable play calling on offense, no identity or strength on defense. In both games it feels like we have let the opposing offense totally dictate the terms of the game. We put up some resistance in first half against TTU but havnt seen any since then. Shafers cover 0 and cover 1 used to drive us insane when we gave up the big play but when we played well and executed we could hang with most teams in the country.

Gonna be a long season.
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